DANGAT JAYBATS

Why do we write? What is plagiarism?

- Issue that implicate the law - Taking an idea and passing it off as your own

Goal General Rules

- -produce a treatise on the issue 1. If you use someone else’s ideas you should cite
o Final say on issue the source
- Influence public policy a. Or even if it influenced your research
o Not a column or blog (even in acknowledgement)
o Not survey of cases 2. If the way in which you are using the source is
- How can we fix it? How are other countries doing unclear, make it clear
it? a. The reference must be found by
someone else
Selecting a topic
3. If you received specific help from someone in
- Current writing the paper, acknowledge it
- Urgent and consequential
How is plagiarism committed?
o Real life consequence
o Personal interest - Writing v assembling
o Interest to the public o The apt phrase
- Novelty of the issue o The mosaic
o RRL will help determine WN topic is  Basically just editing
novel o Not plagiarism but bad writer!
- On emotion - YOU MUST PARAPHRASE THEN CITE
o Passionate v academic o Tip: put reference aside and write your
o SOLVE THE PROBLEM! own ideas
- Does not have to be cold - PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE TEST! If it’s not
- DON’T WRITE LIKE A LAWYER something you experienced, then it needs a
citation
Kinds of papers
CITATION
- Critique of cases
- Legal history or philosophy - Word for word quotation must be in quotation
- Law and literature etc. marks
- Criticisms of legal scholarship - If more than 3 lines- indented paragraph, add the
reference at the end
Style
- INTERNET
- No one impressed by legalese o Citation
- Write a story, tell a narrative  Title of document/webpage
- It must be thorough weighed down by statutes  URL of webpage
and case law  Author of webpage
(organization)
 Title and date of broader work if
possible
 Date on which page was visited
o Problems with the Internet
 Finding the proper address to
record
 If frames are being used
the proper address is
 hidden – solution: look
at page properties
 Finding out who the author is
 Finding the page later
o WIKIPEDIA IS NOT A CREDIBLE SOURCE
 Only use as reference to find
original source in footnotes

If someone helped

- Casual conversations to extended deliberations

o Specific ideas/suggestions should
referenced
o General conversations should be
acknowledged

Copyright

- Citation will protect researcher to some degree

- Fair use doctrine
o No need for permission if within fair use
o Need for permission depends on
author/publisher

Acknowledge the work of others

- If you adopt someone else’s idea but cannot

place them between quotation marks b/c not
verbatim

Cite sources for

- All direct quotes

- Paraphrased
- Ideas that are not common knowledge

Reference management software

- MS Word
- Open Office writer
- Bibus for Open Office
- Biblioscape

Online research tools

- Zotero
- Websearch engines
- Online publishers
o Heinonline
o Lexis nexis